By GREGORY ZELLER //
A fresh collaboration with a leading Online Program Management provider will provide Adelphi University with a half-dozen new online degree programs over the next two school years.
The Garden City-based university on Tuesday announced a new agreement with New Jersey-based Wiley University Services, a circa-1996 OPM firm providing higher-education services and solutions to roughly 70 international universities.
The new deal will bring six new online degree programs to Adelphi, including a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies, a Bachelor of Science in Business and an accelerated Master of Business Administration, all slated to launch with the Fall 2022 semester.
The collaboration is also eyeing an online Master of Public Health program to launch in Spring 2023, and Master of Computer Science and Master of Science in Adult Gerontology/Nurse Practitioner programs slated for Fall 2023.
Kristen Capezza: Quick thinking.
Noting “the demand for flexibility … in a post-pandemic world,” Adelphi University Vice President for Enrollment and Communications Kristen Capezza said the Garden City school was wise to act fast with Wiley University Services to expand Adelphi’s online slate.
“I’m proud of our academic community for working quickly to expand online offerings to serve students looking for high-quality and cost-effective programs,” Capezza said Tuesday.
The selection of online courses was no accident: Adelphi carefully curated the new degree programs to match 21st Century industrial demands for computer programmers, healthcare professionals and ambitious entrepreneurs.
Neither was the university’s selection of an OPM provider: In addition to the courses themselves, Wiley will provide bundled services designed to strengthen Adelphi’s student-recruitment efforts and “touch the student,” according to the university, including student marketing and retention services and technological support for the online programs.
Todd Zipper, Wiley’s executive vice president and general manager of University Services and Talent Development, said the New Jersey company – which counts the University of Wyoming, South Carolina’s Winthrop University, Scotland’s University of Glasgow and England’s University of Bath among its international clientele – is excited by its new Garden City association.
“We’re proud to partner with Adelphi on the launch of several new online programs,” Zipper said in a statement, adding the new virtual courses “will offer students an impactful learning experience designed to bridge education to career.”
